Transcript Living With Nazism - Harry Collinge High School

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LIVING WITH NAZISM
SS 30-2
Unit 2-Chapter 7
The Treaty of Versailles
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This treaty really led to a series of problems that at
least indirectly was part of the cause of WWII.
The terms of the treaty:
 Germany
must give up some of its won territory and all
of its overseas colonies
 Accept responsibility for causing all loss and damage to
Allied governments
 Pay the equivalent of US$4.5 billion in reparations to
allied governments between 1919 and 1921; with
additional interest after.
Fascism in Nazi Germany
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The ideology of fascism in Nazi Germany was in
part an expression of Adolf Hitler’s deep-seated
hatred of liberalism, Jews, and communists.
Understanding of Fascism: Chart on page 172
Rise of the Nazis
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Rise of the Nazis
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2YEUhHFMHY
(4:15 min.)
Yellow Star: The Persecution of The Jews In Europe
1933-45 (1 of 6)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGOhJpT-HWk
(14:22 min.)
Hitler the Dictator
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Techniques that Hitler used effectively were:
 Propaganda
 Youth
movements
 The elimination of his opposition
 The use of terror and force (the SA – Storm Troopers
and later the SS).
 Scapegoats (for example, the Jewish population,
communists, the Weimar governments)
Hitler the Dictator
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Use of propaganda.
 Wartime
Disney Propaganda
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfIKQkldXWo&
list=PL8B1F2519A0693E6F&index=22 (2:27 min.)
 Anti-Communist Propaganda
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_DaMKUP3O
g&list=PL8B1F2519A0693E6F&index=21 (9 :30
min.)
Techniques of Dictators
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See page 179!
Consolidating Power
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November 1932-German elections-Nazi party receives
33% of the popular vote and about 1/3 of the seats in
the Reichstag.
January 1933-Hitler becomes chancellor.
He quickly transforms Germany into a totalitarian statesee page 187.
Reichstag Fire Decree of 1933 and the Enabling Act of
1933 made it possible for the government to:
Restrict personal freedom, freedom of opinion-freedom
of the press-freedom of organization and assembly.
Consolidating Power continued …
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Eliminate the privacy of mail, telegrams and
telephone conversations.
Eliminate the need for warrants to conduct searches.
Pass legislation through the office of the chancellor
without the approval of the Reichstag.
Ban all political parties except the Nazi Party.
Consolidating Power continued …
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June 30, 1934-head of the SA assassinated on
Hitler’s orders.
This is known as the “Night of the Long Knives”-all
further opposition to Hitler is eliminated.
When the President-von Hindenburg dies in 1934Hitler seizes total power and declares himself
Fuhrer.
Nazism and the German Economy
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While individual rights were taken away the
economy benefited from the Nazis.
Between 1932 and 1936 unemployment fell from 6
million to less than 1 million.
Companies that supported the Nazis financially
benefitted from the ban on trade unions and strikes.
Many massive public projects such as the
construction of the autobahn provided much
employment.
Nazism and the German Economy
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Germany started to re-arm its military and farming
and industries were given government subsidies.
Foreign imports were restricted in order to
encourage consumption of German-made goods.
All of this was created in order to achieve autarkyself sufficiency or independence from other nations.
The negative of this was that workers had few rights
and companies were severely regulated and access
to raw materials and output was controlled.
Prosecution of the Jews and Others
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The Jews and other groups were used as
scapegoats for many of Germany’s problems
before Hitler came to power.
Once in power, the Nazis began working towards
the systematic elimination of Jews and members of
some minority groups from Germany and eventually
all of Europe.
Starting in 1933 the German government passed a
series of laws aimed at excluding people of Jewish
ancestry from German society.
Prosecution of the Jews and Others
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1933-Jews barred from working in governmentbeing lawyers-working as editors-the number of
Jewish students in public schools was strictly limited.
1935-Jewish officers expelled from the army.
1936-Jews banned from working as tax
consultants-veterinarians, or teachers in public
schools.
Prosecution of the Jews and Others
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1938-Jews must report all property in excess of 5000
Reich marks/some Jewish property is confiscated and
transferred to non-Jewish Germans/all Jewish
businesses are closed/all Jewish students are expelled
from public schools.
Eventually all German Jews and Jewish people could
be detained in concentration camps and ghettos, and
often used as slave labour, before being transported to
extermination camps and murdered/an estimated 6
million Jews died during the Holocaust.
Nazi Eugenics
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Under Hitler, Germany became a police state run
by the Gestapo (secret police) and the SS (elite
paramilitary force) who ensured that Germans
followed the decrees of the Nazi party.
An important tenet of the Nazi party was the
promotion of the superiority of the pure Aryan race.
Nazi Eugenics continued …
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In order to accomplish this eugenics-controlling
human reproduction so that desirable genetic traits
could be encouraged and other traits eliminatedwas introduced.
Reproduction among desirable people of Aryan
background was encouraged through programs such
as Lebensborn.
Lives of Aryan Germans
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The lives of Aryan Germans improved under the
Nazis.
They were provided with leisure, holidays, access to
improved transportation and frequent public
gatherings to promote this life.
Patriarchy dominated the Nazi ideology.
Lives of Aryan Germans
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Women were primarily to be in the home bearing
and raising children.
Families were loaned money when they married
and were given about $1500 for each child that
they had.
Women got a gold medal for having more than
eight children.
Professional working women lost their employment
and they were forbidden from serving in the armed
forces.
Recruiting Youth
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Young people were courted by the government to
ensure the future of the thousand-year Reich.
See LEBENSBORN